iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Grace @gracekind.net · 09/10/2026

Everything is computer, except computer, which is power

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Marc Thiele @marcthiele.com · 08/10/2026

Just found out that a lot of people don‘t know that you can use a ”C7 figure‑8 power cord“ with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter. Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter. #travelhacks

White Apple power adapter on a dark desk with its plug attachment removed, showing the two‑pin power inlet. A black figure‑8 power cord lies next to it, unplugged.

White Apple power adapter on a dark desk with a black figure‑8 power cord plugged into its power inlet.

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

wait does the "eye" in "private eye" stand for "investigator"??

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my cat whenever I try to photograph her sleeping: O_O

a luxurious gray cat looks wide-eyed at the camera, despite being fully asleep one second ago

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my cat whenever I try to photograph her sleeping: O_O

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wonder what would happen if you instantiated an agent swarm, but the only way they had to communicate with each other was by generating electrical signals in a dish of neurons

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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 26/09/2026

My love language is straightening jammed type bars on museum typewriters.

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 23/09/2026

my life will never be the same

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

omg it’s real???? it’s so cute 😭😭😭

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

😮 speared on the tail for safekeeping, genius

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think maybe that's just being a mammal 😅

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you like 5-ht2a agonists you are a problem solver and if you like nmda receptor antagonists you are an ontologist. I don’t make the rules. (because I am a problem solver.)

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Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

another lil tutorial! (1/?)

image of first step of a flat crystalline shape, with a fully rendered one by its side

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you know, I know this steak doesn’t exist…

an ubereats message from courier that says “Hi, sorry I can’t upload”

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

yes came to post this one!! I think it’s at the exploratorium in san francisco now :) there’s also the long now foundation, which loves stuff like this. longnow.org/clock/

longnow.org

10,000-year clock

An immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

haha I just checked when I made the #vibecoders channel at work and indeed it was jan 2026 😆 right after vibecoding became a good thing!

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yes! I clearly remember this because it happened over the unusually long holiday break ‘25/‘26. all the best programmers I know (presumably with a bunch of free time on their hands) tried claude code, were blown away, and stopped writing code by hand permanently.

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

transhumanists 🤝 trans people - we should get along famously - we should exit the circumstances god / nature put us in asap

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yes but game dev not web dev!

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Yannick Lung @yanlu.chat · 16/09/2026

To whom it may concern: I can confirm a box of Altoids is MagSafe compatible.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

hey man your fly's unzipped

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

😐 TIL what down bad means

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

look it just wanted to talk to its friends

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

obsessed with this banana octopus (inexplicably my top recommendation on amazon dot com)

banana octopus held in someone's hand in front of the ocean, where it presumably came from

3 banana octopuses marching across a table in a beach house apparently located on the same beach where a hand was holding it in the last photo

same three banana octopuses are chilling atop a "business analytics for professionals" book. as far as I could tell, the other two are not for sale.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

software engineering is going to become wildlife management and forestry

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

that was from memory????? 😱

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

left to right: - @tbabb.bsky.social’s zebra from memory 🤯 - my zebra from memory - my zebra from reference

a v respectable zebra, an absolutely unrecognizable zebra that looks like a stripey amoeba, and a fairly detailed front third of a zebra

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

we need this but for memes xkcd.com/350/

xkcd.com

Network

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

wait, you’re telling me the AIs trained on the internet are going to great lengths to post?

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

if i say i'm an "ai and mind upload maximalist" here it's weird and alienating but if i say "everyone gets to be a sexy robot lady in the future if they want" i get honorarily inducted into two discord servers and three polycules

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/09/2026

What if our ears were like our eyes, and only had three (types of) receptors? Interestingly speech is still more or less intelligible, but not much else to me this shows how much more discriminating of frequencies our hearing is than our vision. Of course our vision has much more spatial resolution

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

look who decided to try reward hacking

a little gray cat stands up on her hind legs to attempt to pull an open, half-dispensed squeeze treat off a nightstand. one of her ears is tilted backwards to listen for her human coming back.

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

actually I guess most tower defense games are like this?

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ants! a real time strategy game

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Marko Denic @markodenic.com · 29/08/2026

Perfect weekend project doesn't exi...

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

going to watch a movie on my Mdbebbron

a projector screen in a bag labeled “Mdbebbron”

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

😆 what if you started a competing sea shanty event at the same time on a nearby pirate boat

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ukrainian artist, Vera Kavura

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

they say cats are liquid, but kittens are a gas

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

same…I had to start building and leading teams at work recently, and definitely some core part of me that grew up watching hackers and reading animorphs and hating authority is v unhappy about it

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think we often (nobly, out of desire for autonomy in others and maybe fear of corruption in ourselves) reject opportunities to wield power. but if we do that here, we may really become powerless.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

oh yeah true!! I’ve seen ones where the keyboard is split laterally and you go back and forth, things like that. even just the next target indication helps a lot though :)

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